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Anupam Hazra | |
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| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 2014–2019 | |
| Preceded by | Ram Chandra Dome |
| Succeeded by | Asit Kumar Mal |
| Constituency | Bolpur |
| National Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Party | |
| Assumed office 2020 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1982-05-30)30 May 1982 (age 42) |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party (2019–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Trinamool Congress (before 2019) |
| Alma mater | Assam University (doctorate) |
| Profession | Teacher |
Anupam Hazra (born 30 May 1982) is currently serving asNational Secretary[citation needed] of theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 2020.[citation needed] He is a formerMember of Parliament, Lok Sabha ofTrinamool Congress fromBolpur Lok Sabha constituency, West Bengal.
Hazra is a social work (MSW) educator, author, researcher and a development professional from Bolpur-Santiniketan,West Bengal,India. He completed his doctoral research on rural sanitation management (Swachh Bharat) and qualified for the National Eligibility Test for consecutively four times and awarded a junior research fellowship by the University Grants Commission, Government of India.[citation needed]
So far, he has authored four books and contributed over 100 research articles to different international and national social science journals across the globe.[citation needed] His books on different developmental issues are still among the best-sellers.[citation needed]
Hazra was born on 30 May 1982, in a lower middle-class scheduled caste rural Bengali family in West Bengal. He is the first child of Shri. Debnath Hazra and Smt. Manju Hazra. He grew up in the rich cultural environment ofSantiniketan and completed his education at Rabindranath Tagore's Visva Bharati University.[citation needed] His father is currently a retired government employee, and his mother is a homemaker. His younger brother is currently teaching at a University based out of West Bengal.[citation needed]
Hailing from a non-political and academic family, Hazra started his political career as a Member of Parliament from the Bolpur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal in 2014, by defeating the then-prominent CPI(M) leader Ram Chandra Dome with a whopping margin of over 2.5 Lakh votes. During his tenure, he has been a member of the Standing Committee on Information & Technology (IT) as well as a member of the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Steel & Mining. Additionally, Hazra was also in the forum for promoting sanitation and was an advisor to the Indian Council of Food & Agriculture.[citation needed]
As a Member of Parliament, Hazra led several parliamentary delegations to foreign countries like Australia, the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, South Korea, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Cambodia, Bangladesh and some more countries as well.[citation needed]
In March 2018, he represented India as an ambassador for peace with a team of parliamentarians and politicians at the Universal Peace Summit organised by the Universal Peace Federation in Seoul, South Korea.[citation needed]
In 2020, Hazra was appointed as the National Secretary (Rashtriya Mantri) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has been the co-in-charge (Saha-Prabhari) of the Bihar BJP from 2020 to 2022.[citation needed]
In 2023, the national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda inducted him into his core team as the national secretary (Rashtriya Mantri) of the party for the second consecutive time.[citation needed]
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